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| Process and Presentation (The Chef, the Writer) | |
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| Purpose, Audience, and Presentation | |
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| Purpose, audience, voice, and media | |
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| Everyday writing and writing for college and community | |
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| Email in academic and business settings | |
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| Presenting your work honestly | |
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| Generating a Topic, Thesis, and Plan | |
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| Getting started as a writer, reader, and critical thinker | |
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| Ways to generate a topic and ideas | |
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| Ways to present your thesis or claim | |
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| Writing with others | |
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| Developing Paragraphs and Essays | |
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| Paragraph basics | |
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| Unified paragraphs and topic sentences | |
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| Using transitions and links for coherence | |
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| Eight examples of paragraph development | |
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| Writing introductions and conclusions | |
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| Revising, Editing, and Proofreading | |
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| Strategies for revising | |
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| Giving and getting feedback | |
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| Drafting and revising a title | |
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| Editing | |
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| A student's annotated drafts | |
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| Document Design | |
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| Formatting a college essay (print) | |
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| Formatting academic writing (online) | |
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| Typefaces | |
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| Color | |
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| Headings and columns | |
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| Lists | |
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| Academic design features in Word | |
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| Critical Thinking and Writing (The Accountant, the Writer) | |
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| Thinking Critically | |
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| Reading words and images critically | |
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| Thinking critically about arguments | |
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| Logical reasoning, logical fallacies | |
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| Writing Critically | |
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| Constructing an argument | |
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| Four questions for constructing an argument (Toulmin) | |
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| Topic and claim (thesis) | |
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| Reasons and evidence | |
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| Appeals and Assumptions | |
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| Common ground and opposing views | |
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| Using Visual Arguments and Visual Evidence | |
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| Visual arguments | |
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| Tables | |
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| Graphs and charts | |
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| Multimedia arguments | |
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| Images and copyright issues | |
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| Honesty in visuals | |
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| Sample Paper: A Student's Argument Essay | |
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| Research/Sources (Nurse) | |
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| The Research Process: A Conversation with Sources | |
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| Know what's involved in a research paper | |
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| Set a schedule | |
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| Use primary and secondary sources | |
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| Consult print and online reference works to get you started | |
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| Move from research to question to working thesis | |
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| Write a purpose statement or a proposal | |
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| Tips for writing, revising, and editing a research paper | |
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| Searching for Sources | |
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| Starting the search for sources on a topic | |
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| Search engines and keyword searching | |
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| Getting the most out of Google, advanced searches, and online alerts | |
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| Databases | |
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| Print sources: Books and articles | |
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| Web sources | |
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| Visual sources | |
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| How to Evaluate Sources | |
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| Read sources critically | |
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| Recognize a scholarly article in print | |
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| Recognize a scholarly article online | |
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| Evaluate works originating in print | |
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| Evaluate Web sources and learn to recognize junk | |
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| How to Avoid Plagiarizing | |
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| The seven sins of plagiarism | |
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| How to avoid even the suspicion of plagiarism | |
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| Know why, how, and what to cite | |
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| Keep track of sources | |
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| Record information and set up a working bibliography | |
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| Use bibliographical software, databases, and Word 2007 to help you keep records | |
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| How to Use, Integrate and Document Sources | |
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| Interact with your sources: Annotate and make notes | |
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| Put yourself in your paper, and synthesize sources | |
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| Organize your essay by ideas, not sources | |
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| Summarize and paraphrase | |
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| Quote accurately | |
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| Indicate the boundaries of a source citation in your text | |
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| Introduce and integrate source material | |
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| Document to fit the discipline | |
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| One source, two systems of documentation | |
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| APA Documentation (The IT [Information Technology] Professional, the Writer | |
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| Citing Sources in Your Paper, APA Style (American Psychological Association) | |
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| Basic features of APA style | |
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| How to cite sources (author/year) in your paper | |
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| Notes, tables, figures, and headings (APA) | |
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| APA List of References | |
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| How to set up an APA list of references | |
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| How to list authors in the APA reference list | |
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| Sample APA listings: Print books, pamphlets and parts of books | |
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| Sample APA listings: Online sources | |
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| Sample Paper: A Student's Research Paper, APA Style | |
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| Mla Style (The Arts Professional) | |
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| Citing Sources in Your Paper, MLA Style | |
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| Basic Features of MLA Style | |
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| How to cite sources in your paper, MLA author/page style | |
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| MLA explanatory footnotes and endnotes | |
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